[OSM-talk] foundation affiliate revenue

[Michael Collinson]

Peter, Andy, and all

I waited until Etienne answered, as I knew he would, so you now have 
a copy of the accounts.

On the more general aspects of transparency, your observations are 
well noted.  I've volunteered to handle membership secretary roles of 
the foundation and have been elected to the board. Real Soon Now and 
vapourware stuff but I'm putting the following in place:

- 2 weeks - handle enquiries from individual paid-up :-) members and 
potential members. Reachable via my  regular  mailing list address or 
michael at osmfoundation.org

- By the end of the year, Foundation-specific web-pages with such 
things as the objectives, accounts and assistance for folks who want 
to sign up.

FYI, this year's board is:

     Steve Coast - Ethereal Being
     Andy Robinson / Blackadder - Secretary
     Etienne / 80n - Treasurer
     Richard Fairhurst
     Mikel Maron
     Corey Burger
     Michael Collinson

I don't have my notes with me, but if I've got it right, Richard will 
be handling press and publicity and Mikel technical systems.

Mike
Stockholm


At 07:57 PM 9/27/2007, Andy Allan wrote:
>On 9/27/07, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>
> > While I am on the subject, I have never seen any accounts for the
> > foundation, I have no idea how much it spends, I have no idea how 
> much money
> > it needs or how it is planning to go about raising it.
>
>It's something I was looking at last night actually. The foundation
>page on the wiki says that first year accounts were not due to be
>published until late August, but that's obviously been and gone now.
>
>The game I was playing was guess the bank balance, based on what I've
>seen in the MLs recently. Maybe we can play the game until Etienne
>gets some free time :-) My guess is 18K. Anyone else to play?
>
>I think you're right in cautioning against scabbling around for
>peanuts when there's bigger money that's probably not much harder to
>get.
>
>Cheers,
>Andy
>
>PS Is there a separate foundation mailing list?